US 12,151,950 B2
Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same
Hee Jun Kweon, Daejeon (KR); Jeong Bae Yoon, Daejeon (KR); and Ji Hoon Choi, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to SK ON CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed by SK ON CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 30, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/677,903.
Application 18/677,903 is a continuation of application No. 18/448,976, filed on Aug. 14, 2023, granted, now 12,024,441.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0169569 (KR), filed on Dec. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0308876 A1, Sep. 19, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C01G 53/00 (2006.01); H01M 4/525 (2010.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01)
CPC C01G 53/50 (2013.01) [H01M 4/525 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); C01P 2002/60 (2013.01); C01P 2002/74 (2013.01); C01P 2002/76 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery having a structure of a lithium-nickel-based metal oxide,
wherein a thickness of a TM slab measured by a Rietveld method in a crystal structure of a space group R-3m by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis is in a range from 2.13 Å to 2.15 Å,
wherein a crystal size in a (003) plane defined by Equation 2 below is in a range from 150 nm to 300 nm:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
wherein, in Equation 2, L003 is the crystal size (nm) in the (003) plane, K is a shape factor, λ is an X-ray wavelength (nm), B003 is a full width at half maximum (rad) of a (003) plane peak from the XRD analysis, and θ represents a diffraction angle (rad).